According to the company's research, Flat World's approach has decreased average textbook costs to $18 per student per class, down from more than $100 under traditional models.

Books Louis Menand’s New Book Revisits Familiar Subjects. It’s Still Revelatory. In The Free World, the New Yorker writer attempts a history of just about everything.

Gilbert Sewall addressed the topic of teaching about the world after September 11.He outlined the 2004 American Textbook Council report, “World History Textbooks: A Review,” that claims that ...

Louis Menand at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Writing his new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” was, in part, ”a way of filling in the blanks in my own story,” he said.

The book, along with an edition for 16-year-old students in 10th grade that covers World War II, was formally introduced Monday by Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov and will be supplied to ...